Traditionally being treated as separate, migration and development are today increasingly viewed through the prism of the many links that exist between these two fields. While development-oriented actions can help tackling the root causes of migratory flows, migration can, in turn, contribute positively to development, including economic growth, social empowerment and technological progress.
As legal migration opportunities and jobs are dwindling, migrants are at a higher risk to experience exploitation, discrimination and xenophobia(antipathy towards foreigners).
To ensure widespread human development, security and prosperity, Governments and all sectors of civil society need to work together to improve conditions for migrants and eliminate barriers to human mobility.
Thus, the appropriate objective of policy with respect to migration should not be to end migration, as some politicians have dangerously suggested, but rather to ensure that migration proceeds out of choice rather than compulsion.
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